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**Base** is a fully featured desktop database management system, designed to
meet the needs of a broad array of users, from
- just tracking your personal CD collection, to
- producing a corporate monthly departmental sales report.
**Base** offers wizards to help users new to database design (or just new to
**Base**) to create Tables, Queries, Forms and Reports, along with a set of
predefined table definitions for tracking Assets, Customers, Sales Orders,
Invoices and much more.
When a personal use database is all you need, **Base** offers the full HSQL
relational database engine, configured for single user, with the data stored
right in the **Base** file, as well as native support for dBase flat files.
For power users in the enterprise, **Base** delivers native support drivers for
a variety of multi-user database engines: MySQL, Adabas D, MS Access and
PostgreSQL. In addition, support for JDBC and ODBC standard drivers allows you
to connect to virtually any existing database.
**Base** integrates seamlessly into the rest of the Apache OpenOffice suite
applications, for example:
- supplying address book data for mail merge in WRITER using the industry
standard LDAP protocol, or common address book formats such as Microsoft
Outlook, Microsoft Windows and Mozilla;
- creating linked data ranges in CALC files for data pilot analysis or as the
basis for charts.
For more information on working with **Base**, please see the
[Apache OpenOffice Wiki Database][1] pages.
For technical information, or to help make **Base** even better, stop by the
[**Base** project page][2].
[1]: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/database
[2]: http://dba.openoffice.org/